Hacker News: liminal

New comment by liminal in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

liminal — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:18:51 +0000

Fast, cheap or good. Pick two. It seems like they've been prioritizing fast (lots of planes) and cheap (low staffing, outdated equipment) and paying lip service to good (safety).

New comment by liminal in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

liminal — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:50:00 +0000

Publishers are using AI to generate pages. I want AI to extract the worthwhile bits. Why shouldn't users have tools too?

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

liminal — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1901.09056

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816981

Points: 74

# Comments: 57

New comment by liminal in "Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display"

liminal — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:25:47 +0000

Will your device measure hydrogen sulfide levels?

New comment by liminal in "The next generation of Bazel builds"

liminal — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:32:16 +0000

Buck2 doesn't seem to support JS/TS, so it's not ready for our use case.

New comment by liminal in "The Frontend Treadmill"

liminal — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:02:43 +0000

We're trying to hire an Angular design engineer, so now the recruiter is the person trying to get management to switch to React to make his search easier. The tech doesn't matter too much, but the market forces do.

New comment by liminal in "Greenpeace must pay over $660M in case over Dakota Access protest activities"

liminal — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:58:43 +0000

An issue I've noticed with court imposed fines is that they seem to be set based on the cost of the incident involved, not relative to the finances of the org/person being fined. A pipeline is very expensive, so fines end up being very expensive regardless of the receiver's ability to pay. OTOH, a large company can destroy lives with impunity since the cost of a person's entire lifetime earnings is not material to a multinational corporation's bottom line. This seems backwards to me. Fines should be set in such a way as to properly disincentivize behavior and adjusted to the means of the person/organization paying them.

New comment by liminal in "Apple Invites"

liminal — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:10:08 +0000

This is a good way to ostracize people on other platforms.

New comment by liminal in "Why DeepSeek had to be open source"

liminal — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:19:55 +0000

I'd love to see the training data open sourced for all models so we can be sure no copyright material has been used. Just kidding, we all know it's stolen.

New comment by liminal in "Datadog acquires Quickwit"

liminal — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:31:59 +0000

We just moved from Elastic to Quickwit. Sigh. What other open source, object storage backed logging databases do people recommend?

New comment by liminal in "Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning"

liminal — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:17:46 +0000

Is 14B parameters still considered small?

New comment by liminal in "FireDucks: Pandas but Faster"

liminal — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:52:43 +0000

Lots of people have mentioned Polars' sane API as the main reason to favor it, but the other crucial reason for us is that it's based on Apache Arrow. That allows us to use it where it's the best tool and then switch to whatever else we need when it isn't.

New comment by liminal in "Avoiding a Geopolitical open-source Apocalypse"

liminal — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:25:56 +0000

This has already happened. We won't use software, open-source or otherwise, from an adversarial nation.

New comment by liminal in "Visualizing Complex Functions"

liminal — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:04:02 +0000

This is very cool, but would greatly benefit from a perceptually linear color space. I think the author is using HSL -- HCL would be a better choice.

New comment by liminal in "Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content"

liminal — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:20:29 +0000

People here don't seem to realize the importance of Canadian content rules in maintaining a cohesive national identity and supporting local content producers. The overwhelming barrage of U.S. media necessitates funding the creation of Canadian content, artists and points of view.

New comment by liminal in "AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway"

liminal — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:21:40 +0000

A writer with a long history of published works probably had their works in the LLM training data. This would lead to LLMs duplicating their writing and thus their new work being classified as written by AI.

New comment by liminal in "Google Dataset Search Engine"

liminal — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:56:59 +0000

Really wish you could filter by dataset attributes like language, number of rows, number of columns, etc.

New comment by liminal in "Roman Roads (2017)"

liminal — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:51:48 +0000

Interesting choice making Gaza so prominent and not including Jerusalem

New comment by liminal in "Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs"

liminal — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:19:04 +0000

I'd like to see a weight tax on vehicles. Lighter vehicles have less tire wear, so less pollution. They also require less energy to move, so less emissions. Plus lighter vehicles would improve pedestrian safety.

New comment by liminal in "Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)"

liminal — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:29:42 +0000

The launch looked like a hostage video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3vzKTE0O8